Seattle is a strange place. Like Miami, on the opposite corner of the United States, Seattle attracts and nourishes strange characters. Boston and Los Angeles compete, but not quite as well. There must be a universal constant at work, leaning down to the right.

The drunk Jesus photo is nicely composed, but I gotta go with the guy stuck in a barrel.

The photo of the Juggalo and the orangutan prompted a poetry contest.Nonrhyming poems automatically disqualified. They got 30-plus entries. How awesome is that?

I don't think Althouse has ever hosted a poetry contest.

SLOG is my favorite media blog. Makes me feel like I've got a desk right there in the newsroom, along with several dozen regulars. No, not a desk in the newsroom. More like we're at a bar, which also happens to be a newsroom.